When I speak to kids I tell them, ‘Hey, you think your parents are a pain in the ass now, but they’re going to get smarter as you get older.’
CHARLES BARKLEYI like to help poor people who got no chance. If rich people don’t, who will? Not other poor people, that’s for sure.
More Charles Barkley Quotes
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What does politically correct mean? If you’re fat, don’t ask me if you’re fat, because I’m gonna tell you the truth. You’re fat.
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If I weren’t earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
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The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.
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These are my new shoes. They’re good shoes. They won’t make you rich like me, they won’t make you rebound like me, they definitely won’t make you handsome like me. They’ll only make you have shoes like me. That’s it.
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Well, when I went off to college, the guys I used to hang with were pumping gas and voting Democrat. Today they’re still pumping gas and voting Democrat. Guess the Democrats didn’t do much for them.
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Every time I think about changing a diaper, I run a little bit harder and a little bit faster to make sure I can afford a nanny until my daughter’s old enough to take care of that herself.
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Well, all I can say is that people know I’m not saying anything out of malice.
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I don’t have time to put up with the politics. Who’s a Democrat? Who’s a Republican? Who’s liberal? Who’s conservative? Man, can my daughter just go to a school and not get killed? Can these people get a good job? That’s what I’m concerned about.
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If all babies are so cute, how the hell do we have so many ugly people in the world?
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This is why I hate white people. You guys try to turn everything into a racial issue.
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My message is simple: take control of your life.
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Poor white people and poor black people just don’t know how much they have in common. Rich people don’t give a damn about either group.
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I don’t think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
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If you’re scarde to fail, you don’t deserve to be successful.
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Preseason is just a way to screw fans out of money.
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